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ALAN BENNETTOne recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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